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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on August 05, 2021, 10:49:02 AM
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So if you get everything wrong on a test, you still get 50%. Not to mention all the other stuff they're doing to turn US students into the least educated in the world.
Also, "emergent" ???
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/08/05/what-could-go-wrong-clark-county-school-district-implements-new-grading-policy-to-create-equity/
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More and more a diploma is becoming nothing more than a participation trophy, equally void of all meaning.
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BACK TO SCHOOL: @ClarkCountySch is introducing a new district-wide grading policy.
The lowest grade is 50%. Grades wont be influenced by attendance, participation, & late assignments.
CCSD says this creates equity, some teachers say it lowers standards. Full report on @8NewsNow pic.twitter.com/EGKpixVIU7
— Kate Houston (@katehouston_tv) August 4, 2021
You don't have to do anything to get 50%, you don't even have to show up. Equity = Equally stupid.
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Wouldn't "creating equity" be just giving everyone the same grade?
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When I was in school, 50% was still a failing grade.
Funny story about grading - when I was in college as an undergrad Physics major, I signed up for the required course in Thermodynamics. This was considered to be a make or break class for Physics undergrads, much like PCHEM was for chemistry majors.
I guess I lucked out - a very senior professor was assigned to teach this course - and he didn't like it. So on the 1st day of class, he announced everyone had a "C" grade - even if they did no work and never showed. If you handed in the midterm take-home exam (which would NOT be graded!) you got a B. If you also handed in the take-home final, you got an A. And all the problems were from the student supplementary guide - which also included solutions.
I got an "A" of course, with almost everyone else in the class. One lone dummy settled for a C. :facepalm:
Funny thing is - luckily, I never needed what was supposed to be taught in that class. (The next year's class wasn't so lucky.)
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In Baltimore they’d probably make you a valedictorian with a 50
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wset.com/amp/news/nation-world/calls-to-shut-down-baltimore-school-where-013-gpa-ranks-near-top-half-of-class
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When I was in school, 50% was still a failing grade.
Yep. 59 was still an F. 60 - 69 was a D.
The "equity" team would have had a hemorrhage at my high school. The senior math teach put an extra credit question on every exam. There were probably a dozen (maybe more) students in the honors track whose average for the year was between 105 and 110 in Math.
Setting a minimum of 50 won't solve anything, so the next step will have to be decreeing that 75 is the maximum score.